International trade of cereals: the contribution of Romania

Iri­na CHIURCIU¹, Ele­na SOARE², Ion CERTAN³, Aure­lia CHEREJI⁴, Dan Mar­ius VOICILAȘ⁵, Paula STOICEA⁶
1 Uni­ver­si­ty of Agro­nom­ic Sci­ences and Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine of Bucharest, chiurciu.irina@managusamv.ro
2 Uni­ver­si­ty of Agro­nom­ic Sci­ences and Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine of Bucharest, soare.elena@managusamv.ro
3 Uni­ver­si­ty of Agro­nom­ic Sci­ences and Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine of Bucharest, ion.certan@qlab.usamv.ro
4 Uni­ver­si­ty of Oradea, Roma­nia, Fac­ul­ty of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion, aurelia.chereji@uoradea.ro
5 Insti­tute of Agri­cul­tur­al Eco­nom­ics, Bucharest, Roma­nia, dmvoici@yahoo.co
6 Uni­ver­si­ty of Agro­nom­ic Sci­ences and Vet­eri­nary Med­i­cine of Bucharest, stoicea.paula@managusamv.ro

Abstract: Ben­e­fit­ing from pedo­cli­mat­ic con­di­tions favor­able to grain cul­ti­va­tion, Roma­nia was an impor­tant play­er in inter­na­tion­al trades. In the con­text of the cur­rent geopo­lit­i­cal changes, the paper aims to iden­ti­fy the posi­tion occu­pied by Roma­nia in the glob­al trade of maize and wheat in the peri­od 2017–2021. For this pur­pose, exports and imports of maize and wheat by quan­ti­ty and val­ue were analysed on the basis of sta­tis­ti­cal data avail­able on spe­cial­i­ty sites such as ITC. Thus, we note that in 2021, Roma­nia ranked 5th in the rank­ing of corn exporters, in terms of quan­ti­ty and 9th in terms of wheat exporters. The quan­ti­ties and val­ues record­ed for the imports of maize and wheat indi­cat­ed that Roma­nia was not in the top posi­tions in the world rank­ings, although there was an increas­ing trend in these indi­ca­tors dur­ing the peri­od under study.
Key­words   cere­als trade, maize, wheat, imports, exports, Roma­nia
JEL clas­si­fi­ca­tion: Q11, Q13, Q17